Valley officers were involved in three separate shootings in less than 24 hours in north Phoenix, the San Tan Valley area and Buckeye.

None of the police officers was injured, and two men suffered injuries.

At 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, a Phoenix officer spotted a suspicious vehicle near 40th Street and Bell Road and tried to pull the motorist over for a minor violation, according to James Holmes, a Phoenix police spokesman. The driver refused to stop and sped through a park in the area, Holmes said.

The driver eventually stopped at a pedestrian bridge south of Bell Road near Arizona 51, and four people fled the car in different directions, Holmes said. The driver ran up the bridge’s walkway and fired multiple rounds at the police officer, the spokesman said.

The sergeant, who did not fire back, took cover and was not injured by the gunfire, Holmes said. Police are still looking for the shooter.

On Thursday morning, Arizona Department of Public Safety officers shot a car-theft suspect, who they believed was armed and dangerous, at a park on Empire Boulevard west of Ironwood Drive in the southeast Valley, DPS spokesman Bart Graves said.

Graves said it was unclear how seriously the man was wounded.

Hours later on Thursday, DPS officers shot inside an automobile after a man fired at them as he fled from Avondale to Buckeye, officials said.

The pursuit began on 107th Avenue and Indian School Road in Avondale when police spotted a stolen vehicle, said Brandon Busse, an Avondale police spokesman.

When officers attempted to stop the man, he fled, sparking DPS officers to begin a chase that ended near Jackrabbit Trail and Van Buren Street in Buckeye, officials said. Avondale officers released a police dog when the man opened the vehicle’s door while DPS officers fired into the car, Graves said.

The man was injured, but it was unclear whether it was from a gun or the dog, Graves said. Officers were searching for something they saw the driver throw out his car window, he said.

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